euchreとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Possibly from German Juckerspiel, name of an eighteenth-century Alsatian card game, itself apparently a compound of Jucker (“joker?”, may be dialectal) + Spiel (“game”). Likely a doublet of joker.

発音

• IPA: /ˈjuːkəɹ/
• 韻: -uːkəɹ

名詞

euchre (countable and uncountable, plural euchres)

1. (card games) A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.

動詞

euchre (third-person singular simple present euchres, present participle euchring, simple past and past participle euchred)

1. To deceive or outwit.
   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     Well: he guesses They have euchred Mexico into some such Byzantine exercise, probably to do with the Americans. Perhaps the Russians.

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